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Turn your old Game Boy into an Android gamepad with this clever hack

Jamin Warren

This announcement didn't make it to CES, but it's no less nifty. Brian Benchoff at Hackaday devised a clever scheme to reuse his old Game Boy for Android gaming.

After gutting an old DMG-01, [Chad] set to work turning the D-pad and buttons in the Game Boy into something his Galaxy Nexus could understand. He chose a Bluetooth connection to provide input for his emulators, with the hardware generously donated from a Nintendo Wiimote.

The Unconsumption kids would love this.


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